I want to share with you interesting Kindergarten Art Projects For Toddlers and Preschoolers we’ve done in October. They are really simple and can be done in the kindergarten or preschool, or even at home together with parents when the weather is rainy or without any special reason, just for fun.

First is a Dog made from paper napkins.

Any animal can be done in the same way and or anything you want. It’s really easy and can be done even by toddlers. Just watch them to be careful with the glue.

Plane from plastic bottle.

It’s not easy for toddler to make a holes for wings, so in this part you need to help. But to cut and color the parts from paper and stick a passengers are not hard at all.

I love this Butterfly. It’s so easy to make and to play. It’s great training for your toddler fine motor skills.

To do such rose you have to make first 9 petals of round shape and than to stick them together one at a time. It’s much easier than may seem.

Picture of parents wedding. Nice to see that we always were together, even before the birth our child was flying besides us in the form of angel:)

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Tell your toddler he is Autumn and his job is to color the trees.
Ask what colors does Autumn use to color the trees.
Give a picture with trees and say that summer is over.

When the masterpiece is ready place is in the nice place where it can be easily seen.

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I see that some people come to my blog with this question. I want to say them, PEOPLE, don’t be obsessed with education too much. There can be several reasons why your toddler doesn’t sort.

1. Sometimes toddlers are too young for sorting.
2. Sometimes they doesn’t want to sort and that’s the main reason. They are not interested in this activity and it’s boring for them. They have their own right to decide what are their likes and dislikes.

3. They may also don’t like the way you ask them to sort.

It doesn’t matter sort your toddler or not. It’s only activity, not obligatory exam.

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When the weather is rainy we can’t have fun outdoors but after the rain we can have a lot of fun with the puddles. This is very cute way to have good time together playing and laughing.

1. To play with paper ships in the puddles

I don’t know about you but I still like to watch the ships swimming in the water. I don’t know who likes this game more me or my daughter?:))

2. To throw stones in the puddles.

This is absolutely magic activity for me and all children all know. Everybody loves to throw stones. It’s the part of our nature. The main thing is to be dressed comfortable in something old or not very fashionable in order not to be afraid of becoming dirty.

3. Top measure the puddles in rubber boots.
The last one is so easy that doesn’t need any comments. Enjoy your autumn!

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Summer was a fabulous time for different physical activity outdoors but autumn changes our activity schedule into its own way and we have to obey this rainy and sometimes nasty season. Outdoor games are still important but when the weather is rainy and cloudy even the most active children have desire to play something calm and creative. So it’s high time for Autumn Art Projects. While working with leaves or some other autumn activities don’t forget about simple rules for parents or teachers. It would be great to remember simple Halloween songs to be prepared for this interesting holiday.

I promise that very soon you’ll see some new autumn projects very soon! You are always welcome on this blog!

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Boris Nikitin and his wife Elena are striking parents and amazing teachers, founders of new early childhood development method, creator of different developing toys and exercises. They dreamed about their own school but they had no possibility to open it because ot the peculiarities of Sovet system. Instead they created amazing family – outstanding example for parents of all the world how to make the children healthy and happy.

It’s hard to underestimate his role in the history of Russian pedagogics. He was the same for Russia, like Maria Montessori for Italy, Glenn Doman for USA, Masaru Ibuka for Japan. Perhaps he isn’t so famous in USA but I’m sure that it would be interesting to know about him for parents who do care about their children development.

The Nikitin’s family is well-known family in Russia and in all territory of former Soviet Union. By the example of their own family they showed how to help a child to become independent creative and harmonious developed person. Surely Boris and Elena Nikitiny were outstanding parents and teachers.

The first they were spoken about at 50th of XX century. In the small village Bolshevo people were shocked by their seven healthy talented and well developed children, who can walk on the snow with bare feet and do astounding gymnastic exercises. Till the 3 years children were able to read and solve simple mathematical problems. Everyone had a great desire to test children to know for sure of all rumours are true. But the school teachers held children up as an example for other students and all doctors said children were asolutely healthy.

The main principles of the early childhood development by Nikitin.

1. There are two extremes harmful for children development. First is too much attention, when parents don’t give enough time and space for being alone. Too much care, too many games are played, all day long the child is entertained and get use for the role of spectator.
The second is neglect. Communication with the child is only when he need to be fed up or washed, time go to bed or something else. This attitude cause emotional starvation and finally to the mental backwardness.

2. Freedom of choice. Children should choose what they like to do and how long to be busy with the activity. Children are never pressed to do something because the parents want it. Nikitin was against any artificial routine. Parents don’t choose but help to solve some difficult life problems for children. Parents advance the children and at the same time give them a push to development giving rich environment to explore and talking over everything around.

3. Attentive attitude of the parents. Children shouldn’t be left to themselves. Parents take part in all the activities.

4. The aim is not to teach children something earlier than other parents but to give all the objects kids are interested in to stimulate their further development.

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What is development while painting for toddler?
Painting for toddler isn’t the same that we mean speaking about painting.
When we (adults) think of painting we think about some image and embodiment it on the paper by the help of brush and colors.


We should remember that toddlers see the world in different way. I would say that they don’t see everything completely different, they just see it at the other angle.

Painting for toddlers is like experiment and rather a process than a result. They never know how the picture is looking that they are going to paint. They are playing with colors, explore the shades, color themselves and all they can reach around. Paints for them are like alive creatures that can move and speak, retelling awesome and fantastic stories. And if you want to interfere in and say with the expert look “Bears are never green”, you’ll spoil magic moment.

The development while painting is very essencial part of the early child development, because it is not the same as playing with toys. When playing toys a toddler uses already made toys. He is consumer.
But when playing with the paints a child learns how to create something. And this is more important in all developmental methods.

Some sceptic may say that their toddlers (especially at the age of 12-24 month) don’t paint at all but just get dirty with paints. In some points this is true. But it’s easier to say that something doesn’t true than to try to understand. I do believe that even in this early age them had a lot of emotions and impressions that they express playing with colors. Just don’t be afraid to believe.

One of our games with colors.

Red meets Yellow and say:
– Hello!
– Hello!
-Who are you?
- I’m Yellow. What is your name
– I’m Red. Let’s play and dance together!
– Oh, it would be really nice to play and dance together.
– What is your favorite song?
– My favorite song is (say your toddler’s favorite song)
- Oh, great! Let’s dance!
(And Red and Yellow starts to mix and turn into the Orange)
– We are friends and we are Orange!

The story is very simple and you can change it the way you like.

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I don’t know if this game has other name but we call it “islands”. For this simple toddler game you need to make a lot of islands. Usually we take pillows or big puzzles. Like on the picture.

Your task is to cross the room walking or jumping only on islands.

Say to your toddler that everywhere is water and if he steps into water he’ll wet the feet.
Though the game is very simple from the first view it’s interesting and very developing because it develops imagination and vestibular apparatus. Besides it’s fun to do something together.

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How to help toddler to review the letters without making review boring? Just pretend you don’t want toddler to show you some knowledge. Toddlers like to do everything on the contrary. They will do everything you don’t want them to do and will say “no” to everything you want them to do.

All letters are learned, the first words are read, but when reading became boring let’s put books away and have fun eating sweet gingerbread cookies with favorite letters.

Just ask what letter he or she would like to eat:)

Even food ideas for toddler can make us creative.

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Here in Ukraine we buy Christmas tree before New Year because we celebrate Christmas on 7th of January.

But what should little toddler do when it’s so long till New Year but Christmas tree is wanted so much?

Of course decorate some other tree (or plant), for example, Aloe.

You can sing your favorite Christmas songs with toddler while decorating Aloe:)

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